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Ricky Manning
@froonium.bsky.social
1.2K followers 240 following 1.5K posts
TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Sep 13
At long last, video! Here's Foxy, my ratchety old (19 and a half!) cat asking for and receiving a cheek rub.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 4h
This is pure, golden Wodehouse. Thank you!
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5h
Happiest of birthdays to the cuddly and phenomenal Wayne Pygram, actor and gourmet.
Lunchtime on the Farscape lot: Paul Goddard, Wayne Pygram (in Scorpius makeup & headpiece and wearing a purple bathrobe), and Ricky Manning (in Mambo shirt and shorts). Photo by Sean Redlitz, 7 March 2001. Wayne Pygram munches on a bird-of-paradise flower at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 2002. Farscape vidcap: Scorpius munches on a bit of Crichton's brain tissue, as one does.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6h
Wayne's a pro. (And today's his birthday!)
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6h
Wise decision. 😜 bsky.app/profile/froo...
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Mar 21
The Dominar is not amused.
Farscape: Rygel and Scorpius at a bar. Rygel speech balloon: "How dare you associate me with that orange loser grifter? Frelling outrageous!" Scorpius speech balloon: "I agree. You should sue."
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 19h
"Soft, yes; free, no."
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 19h
Four takes, iirc. Meaning four full rides. Wayne did... not enjoy it.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 20h
...wasn't good news for HIM
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d
Listen to me very carefully: I will never, *never*, "ask Gemini."
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
I'm sold.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 2d
i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
Well into two figures!
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
Happiest of birthdays to the incomparable @theclaudiablack.bsky.social, expert kicker of arse and improver of words!
Claudia Black, Ricky Manning, Virginia Hey, and Gigi Edgley (in Chiana makeup) in the Farscape production office, a frelling quarter of a century ago
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
Scapers, assemble!
Illustration: the "Bat-signal" over the Gotham skyline (from the 1966 TV series) but instead of a bat in the spotlight, it's the Farscape Peacekeeper "red wedge" logo.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
BRIT BAKING SHOW, BAYBEEEEE
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
Noice! Congrats! (Although I keep looking at it and going THAT'S THE WRONG SHIRT even though I know how utterly impracticable it would've been to do the RIGHT shirt...)
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 2d
This is the way. bsky.app/profile/froo...
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Jun 4
The samurai on my desk has been joined by three characters I've written for, newly rediscovered as I excavate the archives of the Musée de Froon.
Four "action figures" (NOT DOLLS) (okay, yeah, dolls, so what) on my desk: a 7" tall red & black 3D-printed samurai figure (by https://www.myfantasypets.com/), Scorpius (in black coolant suit) holding a pulse rifle, Zhaan (in blue dress with "Chat Room Queen" button) victoriously holding up Kermit's severed head, K'Ehleyr (half-Klingon half-human woman from Star Trek: The Next Generation) in red-black battle catsuit holding a Klingon sword. In background: four bottles of fountain pen ink (Diamine Ortloff Kölshe Tinte, Ferris Wheel Press Bluegrass Velvet, Dominant Industry Romania Red, Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki), a black shot glass with Farscape logo filled with multicolor paper clips, and a red and black stapler.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 3d
Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d
With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...
www.theguardian.com
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d
Just me?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6d
I will never vote for this man. I'm just going to say that right now
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 6d
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6d
I can not in good conscience recommend anyone do this job. I only do it because I am unfit for all other work.
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6d
They really should've italicized "Malignant" there...
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 7d
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 11d
AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis
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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 7d
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but my favorite Taylor Swift is George Lazenby.
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